Gi Lee has been a regular substitute performer with The Philadelphia Orchestra since 2006. He joined the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. as the second clarinetist for the 2017/2018 season and has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York as an associate clarinetist. Currently, he plays with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and spends his summers performing at the Grand Teton Music Festival and the GoingHome Project in Korea.

Deeply committed to music education, Lee is a faculty member at the Philadelphia International Music Festival and has given masterclasses and coached chamber music at the Luzerne Music Festival in New York and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.

A native of Seoul, Korea, Lee holds a bachelor’s degree from the Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts) and received his master of music from Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University, where he studied under Ricardo Morales.